Tarsnap

Tarsnap is described as Online backups for the truly paranoid, created and maintained by Colin Percival, famous for being security officer for FreeBSD for many years, and nowadays member of the FreeBSD security team.

Tarsnap source code is publicy available. To ensure its source code is actually read, cash is offered to people who can report bugs through a bug bounties program

Build your Tarsnap Debian package

Tarsnap Backup Inc. does not examine or verify third-party software; whether you use those ports or compile manually depends on your level of paranoia and/or your ability to read the packaging files to ensure that there are no malicious changes.

So no ready to use Debian packages!

Since I do not like to install software using make && make install (I like to keep a track of files installed), nor trusting third parties repositories, I’ve started to write a clean Debian source package for Tarsnap, which happens to work on armel architecture (at least).

Also, you can have a look at the Debian source packages files, to check for something malicious, which is not feasible with a binary package found somewhere on the Internet.

No, I’m not lazy

I know this may be frustrating that I do not provide Debian binary packages, but I strongly believe that retrieving binary packages from unofficial websites is a bad practice, particularly when it comes to sensitive things: the security of your data.

Also, I don’t have the time to manage a Debian repository, with all the hassle involved. Free time is scarce :)